Well. This is it. My final piece of writing for The Barnstable Patriot. I would promise not to get too mushy, but c'mon! It's me, after all, and it's time for a look back. After 10 years, there is a lot to look back at.

Mike Sarney, head coach of the Barnstable High School boys varsity tennis team, can't seem to stop smiling. On the surface it could definitely have something to do with his team winning the school's first-ever MIAA Div. 1 State Championship on June 18 against Westboro.

Before Saint John Paul II took to the field for the field first time, long before the first baseball was picked up and the first swing of the bat took place, the Lions knew what people were saying of their chances to repeat as Div. 4 champions.